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Perhaps there is no more beautiful musical sensation than inserting a CD into the player and being enchanted for the entire listening of the album. Still, motionless, savoring every single note, ready to eliminate any noise that might interrupt this magic, captive to the listening like leaves that, without resisting, let themselves be carried by the wind anywhere.
Certain albums take you by the hand, and you hold yours around them tightly, very tightly, wanting them to accompany you forever, because you know you have found more than just simple sound, a friend made of notes that speaks your same language, that consoles you, makes you dream, a bride that is not seen but felt, in the ears and especially in the heart.
Who are Ours? Ours, who debuted on a major label (previously there was an EP: SOUR from way back in '94) in 2001 with the album "Distorted Lullabies", are associated with the figure of the vocalist/leader Gimmy Gnecco, who wrote all the songs on the album. The other members at that time (fortunately, given the fall in style caused by the participation of other members in the songwriting of the subsequent album) were mere session men.
And now the most important question: what are Ours? Ours are poetry in music, they are art, they are feeling, they are pain, they are melancholy, they are beauty! Gnecco has a divine voice, often, and rightly, compared to the late Jeff Buckley (it seems the two knew each other, Jimmy even dedicated some songs to him during acoustic performances), listening to him sing is a real emotion. Gnecco masterfully plays with his voice, showing he knows how to use it like a real instrument, highs, lows, anger, despair, resignation. The lyrics are very inspired, the adjective that best characterizes them is the much-overused decadent, an adjective unfortunately subject to too many abuses in the contemporary music scene. This decadence is closer to Verlaine, in its melancholic-loving traits, rather than Baudelaire's deep existentialism while always maintaining very high-quality standards. These are songs from a sensitive and tormented soul, which find expression and content in notes that are the actresses of a theatrical tragedy, preserving its epic.
The album perhaps has one of the most beautiful openings I can remember since I have a musical memory: "Fallen Souls". A song in which Gnecco showcases all his vocal talents, with a spine-tingling performance, where the voice amplifies the tumultuous soundscape. I don’t want to do a track by track review because I am against this method, as I believe it is up to the listener to delve into the content of each album exploring all its nooks and crannies with the torch of their ego. In this particular album, it is YOUR emotions leading the way, if possible, forget even what I'm telling you, listen to the album as if it had come into your hands by chance!
Musically speaking, the style of Ours is very close to the Radiohead of Pablo Honey and The Bends, the song "You" above all. It is, therefore, a genuine guitar-rock album played with lots and lots of passion, where ballads ("Monster", "Dizzy") alternate with decidedly more rock songs ("Misery Head", "The Drowning"). The common denominator of the tracks is the angelic voice of Jimmy, a singer who, in my opinion, deserves much more attention and especially travel companions worthy of him...
I therefore believe that Distorted Lullabies is a little Dark Rock gem capable of profoundly impacting the listener, thanks to an exceptional singer and lyrics that would not look out of place in a poetry book.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Drowning (03:37)
Oh it sounds like a fire in store
Holding down while the tides are strong
I survive a wave but now I'm gone
How am I to change the damage done?
Maybe today, today we die [2]
Give us and take away the cries
Baby today we die
There's a fire in the wind and the oxygen
Brings a round of a .........
And I gave you the rain you claimed the sun
When I took it away you came undone
Even the rain can take the sun
Take it away and file into the light
Where everyone just waits to find
Another thing to steal that's mine
It's unbelievable human kind
It's unbelievable
It's like a pain
Pain..now
How come everybody's doing different then they've said
Complaining that their living and they'd rather be dead
Always part of the ......
So many things that he don't know
Baby today, today we die [2]
Forgive us and take away the cries
Baby today we'll die
[Reprise]
I've had hard time thinking
I've had the hardest fall
I'm drowning and now I'm sinking into it all
Remember the words of someone
Someone I used to know
Love everyone but keep them
Far from your soul
03 I'm a Monster (03:30)
Am I a bad guy?
Am I a bad soul?
My eyes roll backward
My head fell forward
We want the vampires
They want the daylight
Undecided if we will feel it
All the lies and fantasies I picked to deny what is right
as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
to the legs of a butterfly.
We live to see our children die,
turn to the bright to describe what we never will find,
I'm a monster singing through the side of a left eye
And I will pay for, and I will pay for,
I couldn't have her,I couldn't save her,
If I could grab on, I'd pull the ......
All the lies and fantasies I picked to deny what is right
as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
to the legs of a butterfly, of a butterfly
We live to see our children die,
turn to the light to describe what we never will find,
I'm a vampire clinging to the sounds for a fast high.
All the lies and fantasies I picked to describe what is right
as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
to the legs of a butterfly.
I live to see our children die,
turn to the bright to describe what we never will find,
I'm a monster singing through the sigh of a left high.
04 Sometimes (03:53)
Pressure fried the coldest head
Bent to the side wishing he was dead
And I would still defend
I would still defend
I'll give up on it all
I'll give up on the greed
I'll give up on the ones
Who give up on me
Held up by the poor somewhere
They're unaware but I know we are scared
If I was to give in the fight would soon begin.....begin
So I'll give up on it all
I'll give up on the greed
I'll give up on the ones
Who'll give up on me
Sometimes sun shines
Sun shines
Sometimes the sun shines
Sun shines
Did you give up on it all
Did you give up on the greed
Did you give up on the ones
Who gave up on me
05 Miseryhead (03:10)
christ, your head. what's it become?
while the whole world's out having fun
i'm in a cloud, it's pulling me down, breaking me down
i'm in a cloud, it feels like a crowd of a hundred, it's five degrees here
nobody sees, somebody please, save me
this is the sound of my miseryhead
choke on the taste of my miseryhead
dance to the words of my miseryhead
this is the sound of my miseryhead
i'm in a cloud, it's pulling me down, breaking me down
turn around
what's that sound?
i'm in your head
i thought i heard him say, he'd rather be dead, than
live life apart...we're apart...we're apart
[chorus]
06 Here Is the Light (04:47)
The deepest repent is coming tonight, I turn off the light
Don't leave yet... repeated
A pale colored boy, and sister are cheated
The needle will bite and sting
When we will arrive, we'll bring...
Peace in this evening, I turned on the light and everyone's grieving
Here is the light Oh let it shine through me
Here is the light Oh let it burn and burn
The needle will bite and sting
When we will arrive, we'll bring...
The needle will bite and sting
When we will arrive, we'll bring
This torturous cycle to burn, burn, burn
When we will arrive, we'll sing
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